Medicine - Religion - Spirituality: Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing

ISBN-13: 9783837645828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 274 str.

Lüddeckens, Dorothea

Opis

In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglement between medicine, religion, and spirituality in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. How do political and legal conditions affect these healing systems? How do they relate to religious and scientific discourses? How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients?

Recenzje

»Die dargestellten Perspektiven und Erkenntnisse in diesem Sammelband können [...] einen gewinnbringenden Beitrag leisten, einer stigmatisierenden Polarisierung, abwertenden Hierarchisierung oder undifferenzierten Generalisierung vorzubeugen.« Anna Janhsen, Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik, 68/1 (2022) »Dieser Band [ist] ergiebig, anregend und hinreichend differenziert im Umgang mit einem äußerst diffusen zeitgenössischen Phänomen, das weiterer Untersuchungen, Überprüfungen und Einschätzungen bedarf.« Assia Maria Harwazinski, Auskunft, 39/1+2 (2019) Besprochen in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 29/2 (2021), Benedikt J. Kastner Curare, 44/1-4 (2021)

O autorze

Lüddeckens, DorotheaDorothea Lüddeckens (Prof. Dr.), born in 1966, teaches Study of Religions at the University of Zurich. Her research foci lie in qualitative-empirical research of contemporary religion in Western Europe and contemporary Zoroastrianism, ranging from studies regarding dying and death to research on religion and medicine. She has directed research projects on "Visible Markers of Religious Identity in Public Debate" and "Alternative Religiosity/Spirituality at the End of Life".